About This Statistic. This statistic shows the dollar sales of ice cream in the United States in 2017, by type. The sales of ice cream amounted to approximately 6.6 billion U.S. dollars in the 52 weeks ending May 27, 2017.
DEFINITION of 'Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)'. An ETF, or exchange traded fund, is a marketable security that tracks an index, a commodity, bonds, or a basket of assets like an index fund. Unlike mutual funds, an ETF trades like a common stock on a stock exchange. ETFs experience price changes throughout the day as they are bought and sold.
Types of ETFs. The first ETF was the SPDR S&P 500 fund, symbol SPY, which owns the same stocks in the same proportion as the S&P 500 stock index. There are ETFs that track all of the major stock indexes and a wide range of sector focused stock indexes.he first ETF was the SPDR S&P 500 fund, symbol SPY, which owns the same stocks in the same proportion as the S&P 500 stock index.